This book is broken into three stories. The first story is about a teenage alien who comes to earth and thinking that cows were the higher species, pretends to be one on a farm where they slaughter cows. He gets slaughtered and turned into meat that goes into hot dogs that get sold to Nate-Mate hot dog stand. When people eat the hot dogs with the alien in it they become flesh-eating zombies. Harley's teammate Toolkit gets bit by one, so Harley slices off his arm. She then catapults him into the local hospital with the arm in a cooler so it can be reattached when she realizes that getting bit by a zombie does not necessarily make you a zombie. The rest of her teammates hold up at the bumper cars and get rescued by Poison Ivey with a weed whacker. They have to find a way out of the bubble that has encased Coney Island. Meanwhile, the parents of the alien are on the lookout for their son and are wondering what on earth could have happened to him.
In the second story, Bolly Quinn from India has roped Harley in on a mission to stop an organization from ripping off grannies of their hard earned money through telemarketing. The third story is about a punk rock group called the Purple Satins who go around dressed as knights and steal from others. Harley is interested in getting them because they killed her favorite postman and stole a package meant for her from Arkham. The Police Commissioner is willing to give her some reward money if she can take care of this problem for him since one of their members is a Senator's son and they keep getting away with it because of this.
Harley gets the idea to form a band of her own and infiltrate them that way. With Tony on guitar, Eggie on drums, and Toolkit with his problem arm on bass they make an awful band, but with Harley's flair for the dramatic they pull it off and get in close with the Purple Satins. Now to figure out what they are up to. To be honest, this comic was a big let down to me. I mean, going after telemarketers and a rogue teenage alien chopped up in a hot dog? The stories were all pretty lame. I didn't even finish the book. I love Harley and her psychotic self, but this was way more ditz than psycho and the author surrounded her with idiots and such a large cast its hard to keep track of everyone. The art, however, is still pretty good, though and worth half a star. I give this book two and a half stars out of five.
Link to Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Harley-Quinn-2016-Vol-Laughing-ebook/dp/B01M0DN1SL/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1545410443&sr=1-1&keywords=dc+universe+rebirth+harley+quinn
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